One thing that really came through was the confusion people feel when looking to “join the #indieweb” – it illustrates a common misconception that sites have to implement every bit of technology going.

“More people are blogging. That’s really cool. Now one thing to make sure of is that people can easily find out who you are from each of your posts. Simple things like your name. Sometimes hard to determine.”

I never actually considered Twitter to be a microblogging platform, at least not for my own purposes.

At its most basic level your Twitter profile fits that brief (a reverse chronological list of short posts from a single author) but the lack of true ownership and the overarching social aspect meant I could never really see it as such.

In September last year I wrote that a lot of the blogs I historically followed had shut down or just stopped being updated. People didn’t appear to be writing any more – at least not on their own sites.

A conversation cropped up in the #indieweb slack about how wide its adoption currently was. It surprised me to learn that there were, at most, around 10,000 sites that could currently be described as indieweb properties.

Historically, we would visit someone else’s site to leave a comment or click a like button. Sometimes these interactions would be held within their own site’s data but, frequently, they would be stored remotely – think Facebook Likes or Disqus comments.

When I rebooted the blog last year I aspired to the goals of the indieweb but wasn’t yet familiar with the #indieweb movement. I knew I wanted ownership of what I was doing but hadn’t filled in the fine details.